Maintenant 11: Contemporary Dada Art & Writing

Description

Spring of 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the art movement known as Dada, with art, poetry, and performances created throughout the world in celebration. But with the changes to the political landscape that have taken place since then, the global situation that inspired the original Dada art and writing is becoming disturbingly more apparent with each passing day. MAINTENANT 11: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY DADA WRITING AND ART offers a compilation of leading Dada-influenced artists from around the world. This year’s theme, “EYE FOR A LIE,” features work that examines the concept of “fake” everything—questioning the very essence of truth in what some have labeled the “post-truth” era. When individual beliefs, motivations, and emotions are increasingly guided by online echo-chambers, lies become truths across the entire political spectrum. From an artistic perspective this presents a unique challenge, and the work in MAINTENANT 11 shows artists unraveling lies, offering “alternative” lies, and often offering multiple perspectives of a single situation to show how reality has multiple levels of truth.